Washable Workwear Wednesday: Geo Print Long-Sleeve Dress
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New Year = new look! A graphic print is an easy way to hit refresh on your work wardrobe.
This bold, geo-print dress has long cuffed sleeves for the cold months ahead, a fitted waist, and jewel neckline. In many ways, prints are easier to wear than solids on busy days — you don’t have to worry about accessorizing, and they hide stains and wrinkles. This one in white and navy is especially easy since you probably have shoes and a sweater or jacket that already match.
Maggy London’s Geo-Print Long-Sleeve Dress is $148 at Nordstrom and comes in sizes 0–16.
Kiyonna has a plus-size alternative that comes in two fun prints and is available in 1X–3X for $138 at Nordstrom.
Looking for other washable workwear? See all of our recent recommendations for washable clothes for work, or check out our roundup of the best brands for washable workwear.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
Yeay!! A new post :) To kick us off — things that worked/didn’t work for you over the break?
Our thing that REALLY worked was implementing Secret Santa for our nuclear family. We think it’s important to have the kids participate in the buying/wrapping part of gift giving so they understand the mental lift associated with gift centric holidays, and each kid picked another kid or adult from our family. I was genuinely impressed at the gift selections that each kid made — even the 4 year old showed genuine thoughtfulness with the selections for their recipient. I will repeat this tradition next year! We also opened Secret Santa after the Christmas Eve church service, so the gifts weren’t lost in the morning shuffle.
Didn’t work — we needed a second location! By week 2, we all needed a change of scenery.
Happy New year all! Anyone use a 5 year planner with a calendar for each month? It’s this one: http://www.etsy.com/…/2024-2028-five-year-monthly-planner. It was monogramed so I can’t return it 😆, but unsure what to use it for. I could add school breaks for DS but don’t have a lot of other kid events. Apt dweller so no need to track when I need to do house stuff. Any other ideas, wise hive? TIA!
Any strategies on getting a significant other (spouse, in my case) to actually take their allotted leave?
I get 25 vacation days per year and take them all (including years I had maternity leaves). I took my full mat leaves both times.
My husband gets around the same, and maybe takes…5 days? He worked every day between Christmas and New Year (admittedly, due to an emergency). He got 12 weeks fully paid paternity leave and only took 2 weeks. He’s not big law or similar, but he does have a busy job – but it’s more that he is terrible at planning to step away, or at actually getting his work done efficiently when he is working (so it ends up spilling over into weekends or planned time off).
I can handle the baby and toddler solo so that’s not the issue. But I do want more family adventures/vacations in our lives.
Fun toddler moment of the day – my daughter has taken to throwing her sippy cup on the floor a lot. I’m trying to teach her not to throw stuff, so I’m saying no and shaking my finger in my sternest tone. Well this morning she threw the cup, then looked at me very seriously and immediately went “NONONO” while shaking her finger in a perfect and very sassy imitation of me. Then she erupted in a fit of giggles. So much for teaching her manners, but I was laughing too.
Hope everyone had fun with their kids over the holidays! I did, but am also very thankful that our daycare is open today…
Oh no… we were steps from the science centre this morning when my husband texted that he had a positive Covid test (he left for the office while we still sleeping, felt rubbish, and nipped into pharmacy for a test). The grandmas were about to board a train to us when he called to let them know and they have bailed. T is so, so sad. I had a fun Friday booked as part of my in law avoidance strategy but figure I am also positive and don’t want to share germs in the yoga class/gallery! How are we still doing this 4 years on??
My fourth kid is breaking us on sleep. She’s 2.5 and can officially climb out of her crib. She also shares a room with our four year old so I don’t love the loud cries in the middle of the night. She wakes up and wants a parent to hold her on the couch and ends up hysterically crying if we don’t come. Tips for sleep training at this age? We’re going to set up a twin for her this weekend but I don’t think it’ll help. She’s started ending up in our bed just so we can all sleep but I don’t want to cosleep! I feel like what worked on a 6 month old or 1 year old is just not working on our very clever 2.5 year old!
ADHD moms!
I have posted on and off about my now 7.5 year old second grade daughter. For most of her life, and up until about July of this year, we’ve struggled a LOT with ADHD behavior. We hit a critical point in May of this past year, and scheduled her for a neuropsych eval– the earliest they could see her was November.
Well, school started this fall and she was a whole new kid. I mean, the personality and underlying tendencies are still there, but she is functional in a way she was not. No completely out of control meltdowns. No super distracting fidgeting at school or at the table. She can sit through a meal. She can get herself up and ready for school. In any case, we called the neuropsych and bumped the appointment, especially since it’s $3500 and DH’s company has a new benefit that will cover half of it in 2024! Now it’s January and the appointment is next week.
When we originally made the appointment, it was to screen her, get some practical advise on if medication was warranted, and get the paperwork in place for accommodations at school (her 1st grade teacher had essentially been treating her as if she had accommodations in place- let her go walk around in the halls, gave her fidgets, etc). Now…her 2nd grade teacher believed me, but was genuinely confused when I asked about fidgeting, accommodations, etc. Apparently she’s a focused, model student who is “on the antsier side of normal, and a little giggly when in certain friend mixes, but completely and totally normal.” I know both of her teachers well and I think they just experienced a very different child. My kid still blows up, but can cool off and take a breath and doesn’t LOSE HER EVERLOVING SHIT like she used to. She still gets “stuck” on things, but recognizes it more.
I’m going into this appointment sort of confused about what we need now. Just an official diagnosis? Or not? Are we wasting everyone’s time (it’s a lot of time- four different appointments)? Do we want to get her Officially Labeled now so we can go back to it if we need it? Because there is no question of medication now; she’s doing great.